THE EVENT: ON SCREEN, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Abstract

A filmic analysis of the feature film The Event (Audrey Diwan, 2021) is made from the journey and experiences of its protagonist – a young French woman, in the 1960s, in search of a safe abortion, even living in a patriarchal scenario marked by oppression, condemnation of women's bodies and violence. The objective is to relate the aesthetic, visual and sound analysis to the current and urgent debate on women's reproductive rights, with emphasis on abortion. The theoretical framework is anchored in authorships of contemporary feminist theory and criticism, especially Federici (2018) and Diniz (2020) and the methodology of film analysis is understood here as a recreation of the original narrative, an exercise in which passages and frames are privileged combined with interlocutions with the theme addressed.